World news photos: Anti-communism expression, highflying hopes and more

October 27, 2013 |By JAKE ELLISON

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In this undated photo released by Matsumoto City Hall, Dr. Akira Sugenoya, right, checks the throat of a patient who went through a surgery to treat Chernobyl thyroid cancer at the Balarus Thyroid Cancer Center in Minsk, Belarus. A generation ago, Sugenoya performed lifesaving cancer surgery on more than 100 children after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. Today, he's the mayor of the central Japanese city of Matsumoto who is trying to avoid a repeat of his own history.

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In this undated photo released by Matsumoto City Hall, Dr. Akira Sugenoya, right, checks the throat of a patient who went through a surgery to treat Chernobyl thyroid cancer at the Balarus Thyroid Cancer Center in Minsk, Belarus. A generation ago, Sugenoya performed lifesaving cancer surgery on more than 100 children after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. Today, he's the mayor of the central Japanese city of Matsumoto who is trying to avoid a repeat of his own history.